Doubtnut

Doubtnut

Company type	Private
Industry	Online Education
Founded	1 July 2016 (2016-07-01)
Founders	Tanushree Nagori Aditya Shankar [1]
Fate	Active
Headquarters	Gurugram, Haryana [ citation needed ] , India
Area served	India
Products	Doubtnut
Parent	Allen Career Institute [2]
Website	doubtnut.com

Doubtnut is an Indian educational app started by Tanushree Nagori and Aditya Shankar. Doubtnut is available as an Android application on Play Store or by accessing its official website. ^[1]

On December 4, 2023, Allen Career Institute acquired Doubtnut for US$10 million. ^{[3] [4]}

Operation

The platform uses image recognition technologies to provide answers and explanation of mathematical and science questions of highschool to college level. ^{[1] [5]} To find the solution to a question, one has to upload an image depicting the question. The app extracts text from the image and tries to match it in its database of questions which are pre-answered, having recorded video solutions. If it finds a match, then the result is provided to the user; otherwise, it asks the user to post their question publicly for tutors available on the platform to provide a video explaining their query.^{[ citation needed ]}

Funding

In 2019, Omidyar Network and WaterBridge invested about $470,000. ^[6] In January 2020, the company raised $15 million in Series A round of funding from Tencent Holdings, and existing investors Sequoia Capital and Omidyar Network India. ^{[7] [8]}

In 2022, the company secured 224 crore in Series B funding, with SIG and Lupa Systems leading the investment. Existing investors, including Sequoia Capital India, Omidyar Network India, and Waterbridge Ventures, also participated in the round. ^[9]

On December 4, 2023, Allen Career Institute acquired Doubtnut for US$10 million. ^{[3] [4]}

See also

• Byju's
• Vedantu
• Unacademy
• Extramarks

References

1. Meghani, Varsha (13 July 2018). "Doubtnut: Doing more than maths". Forbes India . Retrieved 2 March 2019.
2. "Allen Career Institute acquires Doubtnut". The Times of India. 4 December 2023.
3. "Tech in Asia - Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem". www.techinasia.com. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
4. Sarkar, Gargi (4 December 2023). "Allen Acquires Peak XV-Backed Doubt-Solving Edtech Platform Doubtnut". Inc42 Media. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
5. Kumar, Ravi Prakash (1 April 2018). "Doubtnut gives students free video solution to their maths problems" . Business Standard India . Retrieved 2 March 2019.
6. "WaterBridge, Omidyar invest in ed-tech startup Doubtnut" (Press release). Doubtnut. 13 March 2018. Retrieved 2 March 2019– via VCCircle.
7. Roy, Debjyoti (31 January 2020). "Byju's backer Tencent leads Series A funding in ed-tech startup DoubtNut" (Press release). Doubtnut. Retrieved 3 February 2020– via VCCircle.
8. Singh, Manish (1 February 2020). "Two-year-old Indian edtech startup Doubtnut raises $15M". TechCrunch . Retrieved 3 February 2020.
9. "Ed-tech startup Doubtnut raises ₹224 crore in latest funding". HT Tech. 25 February 2021. Retrieved 10 December 2023.